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Botryoidal Goethite
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Limonite included Quartz
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Sand: West of Copley
Lithic sand collected on a field trip to the hills west of Copley containing a small amount of clear quartz with fragments of assorted parent rocks – claystone, iron oxides, and coloured siltstones and sandstones.
Sands: Sliding Rock Area
Sliding Rock is the site of an old copper mine on the west side of Warraweena Conservation Park. The following 5 sand samples were taken in the area.
Old Copper Track
Lithic sand primarily composed from surrounding sedimentary rocks with some quartz crystals with hematite inclusions.
